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Taken in the Toledo Region of Spain.
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This is a Scottish Wild Cat Kitten, not many of these cats left in the wild and the ones in captivity are very important for the breeding program so a lot rests on this little ones shoulders.
There are three kittens eyes are open and mum Kendra is very attentive to her children.
Taken at the British Wildlife Centre camera at full stretch so mum was not bothered.
Got loads more shots to look through but this one caught my eye.
BBC Springwatch fav.
Kingfisher about to dive for its lunch. Thanks again for any favourites and comments. I hope everyone had a good new year and has a pleasant weekend :)
Another juvenile in our local bay
White/Pied Wagtail - Motacilla Alba
Ardmucknish Bay - Argyll Scotland
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Basking in the golden light of a spring morning.
When you get the combination of a beautiful morning and a barnie, what could be better.
Barn owl (Tyto alba)
Yorkshire Dales - Lower Barn/ Embankment male
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Little Tern - Sterna Albifrons
Norfolk
As seen on BBC Springwatch Ep 7 08/06/2022
This delightful chattering seabird is the UK's smallest tern. It is short-tailed and has a fast flight. Its bill is a distinctive yellow with a black tip. It is noisy at its breeding colony where courtship starts with an aerial display involving the male calling and carrying a fish to attract a mate, which chases him up high before he descends, gliding with wings in a 'V'.
Its vulnerable nesting sites and its decline in Europe make it an Amber List species. It is also listed as a Schedule 1 species in The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate albifrons occurring in Europe to North Africa and western Asia; guineae of western and central Africa; and sinensis of East Asia and the north and east coasts of Australia.[4]
The little tern breeds in colonies on gravel or shingle coasts and islands. It lays two to four eggs on the ground. Like all white terns, it is defensive of its nest and young and will attack intruders.
Like most other white terns, the little tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
At the beginning of the 19th century the little tern was a common bird of European shores, rivers and wetlands, but in the 20th century populations of coastal areas decreased because of habitat loss, pollution and human disturbance.
The loss of inland populations has been even more severe, since due to dams, river regulation and sediment extraction it has lost most of its former habitats. The Little Tern population has declined or become extinct in many European countries, and former breeding places on large rivers like the Danube, Elbe and Rhine ceased. Nowadays, only few river systems in Europe possess suitable habitats; the Loire/Allier in France, the Vistula/Odra in Poland, the Po/Ticino in Italy, the Daugava in Latvia, the Nemunas in Lithuania, the Sava in Croatia and the Drava in Hungary and Croatia. The status of the little tern on the rivers Tagus and lower Danube is uncertain.
A few more shots from earlier in the year.
Eye to eye contact with an owl at close quarters, can it get any better?
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Yorkshire Dales - Lower Barn/ Embankment Female
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When I took this shot I was so excited. I have been taking shots of this pair for several years, but this was the closest I had managed to get.
Little did I know that the pair down the road, minutes later, would provide me with, not only better, but my best owl pics to date.
This female was out hunting without her other half and was for once fairly relaxed about me.
Mr Barnie from down the lane will feature soon. He's well worth the wait.
Barn owl (Tyto alba)
Yorkshire Dales - Upper Barn female
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Tufted Duck - Aythya Fuligula
Yeadon Tarn
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Red Kite - Milvus Milvus
Harewood Estate - Leeds
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This cygnet is one of the three cygnets that was born in May this year.
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Brighton 🇬🇧
June, 2020
One of our local cormorants.
The birds seem to have taken to perching on an old metal post just off the jetty.
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
The Jetty Tralee Bay - Scotland
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Two of three siblings that were borned in May.
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June, 2020